Re: [lojban] Explicit non-restriction

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Sunday 25 April 2010 09:15:25 Daniel Brockman wrote:
> So you're saying that {ma poi me ro da} actually ends up
> restricting {ma} to *each* thing?  In other words, it would
> have to be everything at the same time?

Looking at your previous email address, you're Swedish, so I think you're 
mixing up "all", "every", and "each". "All" has cognates throughout Germanic, 
but "every" and "each" are restricted to Anglic or Low German, from what I 
know. "All things" can mean "ro da" or "lu'o ro da", "each thing" is "lu'a ro 
da", and I'm not sure how to explain the difference between "every" (from 
ME "everich"="ever each") and "each". It's the same difference as "todo" 
vs. "cada".

"ma" does not have to be everything at once. It can be any one thing at a 
time. If you want to ask what things broda together, you can say "lu'o ma poi 
roda cu broda".

Pierre
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Le sel dans la mer est plus que dans le sang.

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